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#### 2.1.3 Marker Dictionary Table

The marker dictionary table allows user to specify correspondances between marker names. It is not uncommon in mapping experiments that a same marker is reported with different names. Thus this table makes it possible to specify a standard marker name for which a list of synonyms can be attached. To do so, the table consists in two columns, the first one gives the standard name and the second one a possible synonym. For a given standard name there are as many records in the table as the number of synonyms.

- standard(string): the standard name of the marker.
- synonym(string): a synonym.

For example,

         glb1    umc184a(glb1)
         umc236  php4015
         dhn1    umc170(dhn)
         dhn1    umc170(rab17)
         rop7    umc1950
         umc243a php4227a
         mmp121  umc2163
         adh1    umc1726
         adh1    umc(adh1)
         umc171b(oec23)  npi473(oec)
         umc171b(oec23)  oec1
         umc171b(oec23)  umc171b
         umc171b(oec23)  umc171b(oec)
         his1a   umc1577
         his1a   umc312
         his1a   umc312(gfu)
         ...